HistoricCoinage

True, but cut halves are worth considerably more than broken halves.

Cracking photography!

I know that people have had good results with these people, it might be worth sending them some photos and getting their opinion.

All the best for 2013!

Indeed. The link works only for those with a Gmail account or the like.

A wintry picture of mine from Durham. Enjoy your day!

A very, very merry Christmas to one and all. May Father Christmas bring you plenty of shiny pieces of metal and let's hope the rain eases off as I don't fancy eating my pudding on a life-raft.

With something of such low value I'd not recommend a local solicitor. Your best best is to approach the CAB or just go straight to the Small Claims Court. Make sure you read up on all the papers though.

:lol: "As time passes, this cupro-nickel coin is becoming harder to locate - order today!"

Stuart, sit down with a nice tipple and let your stress ebb away. No worries regarding my email, there's no rush. Hope you lot recover soon. Does whisky complement LemSip?

I am passing this on to you because it definitely worked for me today, and we could all probably use more calm in our lives. Some doctor on TV this morning said the way to achieve inner peace is to finish all the things you have started. So I looked around my house to see things I'd started and hadn't finished - I have managed to finish off a bottle of Merlot, a bottle of Talisker, a bodle of Baileys, a butle of wum, a pockage of Prungles, tha mainder of bot Prozic and Valiuminun scriptins, the res of the chesescke an a box a chocletz. Yiu haf no idr how bludy fablus I feel rite now. Plaese sned dhis orn to dem yu fee ar in ned ov iennr pisss..

I'm learning a lot about the members of this forum in this topic...

It's a Canterbury penny with what appears to be an edge split. Larger photos would aid classification.

Interesting porosity...

Did this not sell yesterday?

10 a.m. this morning.

Phone Is. Hose Pin. One Ship. Phonies.

Right you are, Richard. Right you are!

Looking at his feedback, too, plenty of complaints. "DO NOT BUY ASIAN COINS! I AM SIC OF GETTING RIPPED OFF BY COUNTERFEITERS!HOWLAME" "I AM FROM PERU, AND THIS IS NOT THE ORIGINAL LARGE COIN, IS A SMALL REPLICA" "This is a reproduced coin/ this guy selling all fake coins..."

It reminds me of my local butchers. Here's a photo I took last year.

Wow! There's definitely one for Richard here. Look at all that mint lustre!!!

I've submitted my bids already but I notice that when you click on "Bid Live" it pops up with: "This facility will be made available on the day of the auction." Promising, but I'd ring them today to be sure - 020 7016 1700.

Indeed, it's a stamped halfpenny. With regard to the book, Dr Brunk published: "Identifying Coins Medals & Tokens: Late Antiquity to Modern Times" in the 1990s. However, I suspect that you will want: "Merchant and Privately Countermarked Coins: Advertising on the World's Smallest Billboards" published in 2003. Although it looks as if he specialises in North American tokens. It can be quite expensive to acquire, by the looks of it.

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